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Wednesday, May 18, 2016
When someone has an accident on a building site, everyone around them has a pretty good idea what to do. If someone is feeling depressed or stressed, does anyone even notice? A friend of mine committed suicide two years ago. The last time I saw him, he seemed his normal self and showed no outward signs of the internal pressure and depression that had built up inside his head. I’m not sure he...
Read MoreWednesday, April 27, 2016
So what possessed someone to leave out the header ties that should have secured external walls to the steel frame of several Edinburgh schools? This catastrophic quality failure has taken 10 years to emerge, but has now resulted in 17 schools across the city being closed on safety grounds and the education of 7,000 primary and secondary pupils disrupted – not to mention the knock-on effect on...
Read MoreTuesday, February 23, 2016
Air pollution in many UK cities is, effectively, out of control. This week a ‘Smogmobile’ was seen on the streets of London measuring alarmingly high levels of nitrogen dioxide (NO2). Laser technology developed by NASA is now being used to gauge just how serious and widespread the problem is and why the capital breached its European NO2 limits for the entire year in the first week of...
Read MoreWednesday, February 17, 2016
This is going to be a big year – in fact the next three years will be pretty ‘full on’. The technical and financial market drivers we have faced up to now will be magnified by a factor of 10 as workloads and the type of work really picks up and we will do well just to keep pace with what is about to happen between now and 2018. Skills shortages, labour costs, movement of resources, modern...
Read MoreFriday, February 12, 2016
Three Tier One contractors have just walked away from major projects. Bouygues, Kier and Morgan Sindall have all said ‘thanks, but no thanks’ to significant projects for blue chip clients having decided there was no way they could get the sums to add up to a profit. Kier had 50 people on site at the Ram Quarter regeneration scheme in Wandsworth with enabling works well underway on the £170m...
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